That didn’t take long.
Jim Acosta announced his new venture Tuesday — hours after signing off as a CNN anchor with an anti-Trump rant.
“Hey guys! I’ve started something new. Go check it out!” Acosta wrote in a post on X, along with a video.
His new landing spot will be similar to the route many exiled journalists have taken in recent years: Substack.
“Hey guys, it’s Jim, and let me just say this: I’ve had quite the day,” Acosta said in the video.
“But as you can see, earlier today this was my last day at CNN and I did want to jump on Substack Live for a moment and say welcome to my new venture. I’m going independent, at least for now.”
He went on to rehash his comments from his farewell tirade in which he equated frequent nemesis Donald Trump to “a tyrant.”
“Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and hope. And we’ll keep this conversation going,” Acosta said in the video.
The former White House correspondent at CNN, who often butted heads with President Trump during his first term, was reportedly slated to be relegated to the graveyard shift from his current morning slot before deciding to quit.
“You may have seen some reports about me and this show. And after giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing an alternative time slot CNN offered me, I have decided to move on,” Acosta said at the end of his 10 a.m. program.
Acosta, who is of Cuban descent, said the highlight of his career was traveling with then-President Barack Obama to his ancestral homeland to interview Raul Castro in 2016.
“As a son of a Cuban refugee, I took home this lesson. It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant,” Acosta said in an apparent veiled reference aimed at Trump.
Acosta will be replaced in the mornings by “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown” as part of a reshuffle of the ratings-challenged lineup by CNN boss Mark Thompson.
Thompson had reportedly offered Acosta a less-prominent midnight-to-2 a.m. slot — and the opportunity to anchor the show from the West Coast.
CNN thanked Acosta for his 18 years of service.
“Jim has had a long, distinguished nearly 20-year career at CNN, with a track record of standing up to authority, for the First Amendment and for our journalistic freedoms,” the company said in a statement.
“We want to thank him for the dedication and commitment he’s brought to his reporting and wish him the very best in the future.”
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